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  • * [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: fix steal clock warp during guest cpu hotplug
    @ 2016-06-07  8:33 Wanpeng Li
      2016-06-07  8:33 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] sched/cputime: Add steal time support to full dynticks CPU time accounting Wanpeng Li
      0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
    From: Wanpeng Li @ 2016-06-07  8:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: linux-kernel, kvm
      Cc: Wanpeng Li, Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář,
    	Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra (Intel),
    	Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner, Frederic Weisbecker
    
    From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
    
    I observed that sometimes st is 100% instantaneous, then idle is 100% 
    even if there is a cpu hog on the guest cpu after the cpu hotplug comes 
    back(N.B. this can not always be readily reproduced). I add trace to 
    capture it as below:
    
    cpuhp/1-12    [001] d.h1   167.461657: account_process_tick: steal = 1291385514, prev_steal_time = 0         
    cpuhp/1-12    [001] d.h1   167.461659: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies = 1291          
    <idle>-0     [001] d.h1   167.462663: account_process_tick: steal = 18732255, prev_steal_time = 1291000000          
    <idle>-0     [001] d.h1   167.462664: account_process_tick: steal_jiffies = 18446744072437
    
    The steal clock warp and then steal_jiffies underflow.
    
    Rik also pointed out to me:
     
    | I have seen stuff like that with live migration too, in the past 
    
    The root cause of steal clock warp during hotplug is kvm_steal_time reset 
    to 0 after cpu hotplug comes back which should be preexiting guest value. 
    This patch fix it by don't reset kvm_steal_time during guest cpu hotplug.
    
    Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
    ---
    v2 -> v3:
     * fix the root cause
    v1 -> v2:
     * update patch subject, description and comments
     * deal with the case where steal time suddenly increases by a ludicrous amount
    
     arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 2 --
     1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
    
    diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
    index eea2a6f..1ef5e48 100644
    --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
    +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
    @@ -301,8 +301,6 @@ static void kvm_register_steal_time(void)
     	if (!has_steal_clock)
     		return;
     
    -	memset(st, 0, sizeof(*st));
    -
     	wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME, (slow_virt_to_phys(st) | KVM_MSR_ENABLED));
     	pr_info("kvm-stealtime: cpu %d, msr %llx\n",
     		cpu, (unsigned long long) slow_virt_to_phys(st));
    -- 
    1.9.1
    
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    2016-06-07  8:33 [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: fix steal clock warp during guest cpu hotplug Wanpeng Li
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